How do you get a series of related policies through a legislative body when there are large factions with intense preferences against each of the individual policies? One traditional answer is, of course, a logroll. You package all of the policies together, and even though none of the parts might have majority support, everyone is willing to allow the parts they don't like to get through in order that the parts they do like can go through as well. The classic theoretical example of this is so-called "pork barrel" spending: each Member likes the project that goes to his/her district, but would probably vote against all 434 other projects if they came up individually for up/down votes. So just roll them all together into one bill, and everyone will vote yes. This is called omnibus legislation. Happens all the time.
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How do you get a series of related policies through a legislative body when there are large factions with intense preferences against each of the individual policies? One traditional answer is, of course, a logroll. You package all of the policies together, and even though none of the parts might have majority support, everyone is willing to allow the parts they don't like to get through in order that the parts they do like can go through as well. The classic theoretical example of this is so-called "pork barrel" spending: each Member likes the project that goes to his/her district, but would probably vote against all 434 other projects if they came up individually for up/down votes. So just roll them all together into one bill, and everyone will vote yes. This is called omnibus legislation. Happens all the time.